The Brave Radio Friends Hall of Merit

The Brave Radio Friends have established the Certificate of Merit to honor those people in the field of amateur radio who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment for the benefit of the amateur radio community by going on dxpeditions and operating from remote or rare countries and islands. It is through their adventurous spirit that the hobby of amateur radio is kept alive and interesting. We wish to thank all radio amateurs who give us the chance to work or hear radio signals even from the remotest parts of the world.All the award holders are listed here in the HALL OF MERIT.Some of these great personalities have sent us messages, which you can find on the messages page.Members of the Hall of MeritWilliam Newman (M0BNN)Bill has activated more than 80 (primarily Scottish) lighthouses.André G Saunders (GM3VLB)André has worked from more than 280 islands; most of them Scottish isles valid for the SCOTIA award, which was created by him.Chris Darlington (M0DOL)Chris has acitvated a large number of castles and stately homes for the CASHOTA program.Joachim Braun (DH5JBR)Joachim has done more than 250 activations from more than 30 islands and has also activated some lighthouses.

José Ardid Arlandis (EA5KB)Pepe has activated numerous Spanish islands and lighthouses as well as some EAFFs and some special calls. Furthermore, he is well known to DXers as a reliable QSL manager for a large number of DX stations.

Nenad Rotter (9A5AN)Neno has worked from more than 350 Croatian islands for the IOCA award.Alex Johnsen (G0DHZ)Having frequently traveled around with André (GM3VLB), Alex has activated 95 Scottish islands.Cezar Trifu (VE3LYC)Cezar is well known among the IOTA chasers for his operations from very rare IOTA groups in North and South America. In some cases he even risked his health to get access and operate from these islands.

Yujian (David) Zhou (BA4DW)David has given IOTA hunters the chance to work 15 different Chinese IOTA groups.

Guy Pailhories (F5BLC)Guy has activated about 70 islands, primarily in Scotland, but also in France and the Baltic area.

Núria Font Soler (EA3WL) andJosep Gibert Del Pino (EA3BT)Núria and Josep have worked from a large number of different DXCC entities and have given lots of band points to hunters.Eugene N. Shelkanovtsev (RZ3EC)Eugene has taken part in numerous DXpeditions (especially for the Russian Robinson Club), activating very rare IOTA islands. Furthermore he has worked from more than 200 RDA districts and serves as a QSL manager for lots of DXpeditions.

Linda Friars (VE9GLF) andKevin Leonard Morgan (VE9MY)Linda and Len, as a team, have operated from more than 160 Canadian islands for the CISA and the IOTA awards.

Dr. Hranislav Milosevic (YT1AD)Hrane is probably one of the best-known dxpeditioners and organizers of expeditions to a large number of very rare and remote DXCC-entities and IOTA islands. He is a real globetrotter having traveled to more than 210 countries.

Pedro Allina (HK3JJH)Pedro has operated from 23 different rare IOTA islands in the Americas (from some of them more than once), among them for example Malpelo Island.

Bob Allphin (K4UEE)Bob has visited 110 DXCC entities and operated from 61. He has participated in 35 DXpeditions, and specializes in activating "top 10 most-wanted" and so far has nine to his credit! They are.Baker/Howland (#8), Heard Island (#4), Bhutan (#3), South Sandwich Islands (#6), South Georgia Island (#10), Peter I Island (#4), Lakshadweep (#2), Desecheo (#6) and most recently Saba/St. Eustatius (all-time new one).Przemyslaw Golembowski (SP7VC)Mek has operated from 24 different DXCC-entities and 15 IOTA-islands, so far.

Donald A. Miller (W9WNV)Don is one of the great legends and fathers of dxpeditioning. He operated from very rare DXCC-entities back in the 1960s, at a time when dxpeditions were still more difficult and adventurous.

Simon Gadaleta (IZ7ATN)Simon has worked from about 60 islands and 23 different DXCC-entities. Bärbel Linge (DL7AFS) andLothar Linge (DJ7ZG)Since 1993, Babs an Lot have regularly been on dxpedition to rare countries with not or only little Amateur Radio activity. From there they make as many radio contacts as possible into the whole world. Bob Schenck (N2OO)Bob has been on many dxpeditions to very rare and remote places and he is working as a QSL manager for more than 110 calls.Bill Horner (VK4FW)Bill was the first person to be active from all the VK9 call areas and operated from many other DXCC-entities in the Pacific area.Prof. Wolf Harranth (OE1WHC)Wolf Harranth propagated the ideas and interests of amateur radio through numerous radio broadcast programs on Radio Austria International (KW Panorama, DX-Telegramm). He furthermore founded the Dokumentationsarchiv Funk with its outstanding QSL collection.

Vincent Colombo (F4BKV)Vincent has activated 34 DXCC-entities and 37 IOTA groups all over the world.Serge Soulet (F6AUS)Serge has operated from 50 DXCC-entities and 51 IOTA groups all over the world.Steve G Bryan (G0SGB)Steve is the founder of the British Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society and he has activated a large number of lighthouses all over Europe.Tomislav Dugec (9A2AA)Tom has activated hundreds of Croatian islands for the IOCA (Islands of Croatia Award).Adhi Widodo (YB3MM)Adhi has been operating from a larger number of Indonesian islands for some years, thus giving many people the chance to earn credits for IOTA and the Nusantara Award.Budi Santoso (YF1AR)Budi has activated a larger number of Indonesian islands and lighthouses, some of them being first activations.Manfred Meier (DF6EX)Manfred has activated a larger number of WWFF areas in Germany, Czechia and Austria as well as numerous castles for the WCA. Furthermore he is deeply involved in the organization of WWFF and COTA-DL.

Derek Cox (G3KHZ)Derek operated from a larger number of IOTA islands, especially in Papua together with Hans SM6CVX as P29NI or P29CVX.Hans Olof Hjelmström (SM6CVX)Hans worked from numerous Papua islands for IOTA program together with Derek G3KHZ. They used the calls P29NI or P29CVX.

Syarifudin Syah (YB8RW)Din has actuvted a large number of Indonesian islands for IOTA and for the Nusantara award.